Traumatic events and predictive factors for posttraumatic symptoms in displaced Bosnian women in a war zone

Dahl, Solveig; Mutapcic, Atifa; Schei, Berit

doi:10.1023/a:1024417401973

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“…Participants, who were imprisoned, were more likely to have high suicidality several years after the war than those who did not have that experience. This is in line with studies suggesting that events such as confinement in concentration camps [8] torture [4,8] and being kidnapped are particularly likely to lead to mental disorders such as major depression and PTSD.…”

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Trauma and suicidality in war affected communities

et al. 2013

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Abstract\ud PURPOSE:\ud The aim was to assess whether experiences of war trauma remain directly associated with suicidality in war affected communities when other risk factors are considered.\ud MATERIALS AND METHODS:\ud In the main sample 3313 participants from former Yugoslavia who experienced war trauma were recruited using a random sampling in five Balkan countries. In the second sample 854 refugees from former Yugoslavia recruited through registers and networking in three Western European countries. Sociodemographic and data on trauma exposure, psychiatric diagnoses and level of suicidality were assessed.\ud RESULTS:\ud In the main sample 113 participants (3.4%) had high suicidality, which was associated with number of potentially traumatic war experiences (odds ratio 1.1) and war related imprisonment (odds ratio 3) once all measured risk factors were considered. These associations were confirmed in the refugee sample with a higher suicidality rate (10.2%).\ud DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS:\ud Number of potentially traumatic war experiences, in particular imprisonment, may be considered as a relevant risk factor for suicidality in people affected by war

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“…Serious injury, being ill without access to medical care, lack of food or water, life-threatening illness, torture, combat, lack of shelter, physical or sexual assault by someone known and being lost – all traumatic experiences with a significant physical component and threat to one’s life – have a strong impact on mental distress. This is consistent with other studies examining the nature of war experiences and the severity of the psychological symptoms [7,24,25,26,27]. Likewise, a loss of loved ones has also been recognized as a risk factor for increased symptom levels in war-affected populations [28].…”

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Psychological Symptoms as Long-Term Consequences of War Experiences

Priebe¹,

Gavrilović²,

Bremner

et al. 2012

Psychopathology

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Background/Aims: War experiences can affect mental health, but large-scale studies on the long-term impact are rare. We aimed to assess long-term mental health consequences of war in both people who stayed in the conflict area and refugees. Method: On average 8 years after the war in former Yugoslavia, participants were recruited by probabilistic sampling in 5 Balkan countries and by registers and networking in 3 Western European countries. General psychological symptoms were assessed on the Brief Symptom Inventory and posttraumatic stress symptoms on the Impact of Event Scale-Revised. Results: We assessed 3,313 interviewees in the Balkans and 854 refugees. Paranoid ideation and anxiety were the severest psychological symptoms in both samples. In multivariable regressions, older age, various specific war experiences and more traumatic experiences after the war were all associated with higher levels of both general psychological and posttraumatic stress symptoms in both samples. Additionally, a greater number of migration stressors and having only temporary legal status in the host country were associated with greater severity of symptoms in refugees. Conclusions: Psychological symptoms remain high in war-affected populations many years after the war, and this is particularly evident for refugees. Traumatic war experiences still predict higher symptom levels even when the findings have been adjusted for the influence of other factors.

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“…High numbers of traumas, having children, being over 25 years of age, and the reporting of an absent husband, were characteristics associated with being a PTSD-case. In the multivariate analysis, severe trauma and reporting of an absent husband remained significantly associated with PTSD-cases (46). In terms of the satisfaction of children in BH whose parents suffered from PTSD, there was a distinction in contacts with their families, relatives, schoolmates and formal contacts.…”

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Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hasanović

2011

AMA

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²Research into the psychosocial consequences of war and political violence on children's and adolescent's developmental wellbeing has shown a steady increase over the last decades. Numerous studies, from differing cultures in different war zones around the world, have documented the effect on children of exposure to war atrocities. The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) 1992-1995, at the end of 20 th century found the citizens of BH and the world mental health professionals and scientists unprepared to deal with the adverse consequences for the entire BH population and especially for its most vulnerable part, children and adolescents, to be able to take adequate measures of sufficient mental health care to prevent devastating consequences of severe multiple traumas. Only a few research studies were done during and after this war in BH, the United States, Sweden, Norway, the UK and Germany focusing on the relationship between war trauma, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicidal thoughts, acculturation, repatriation, poverty, behavioral problems, school adjustment, relational problems of children and their mothers after deployment of war PTSD veterans and war prisoners, and treatment of psychological consequences in examined children and adolescents from BH. The major part of this paper reviewed available literature on Medline that reported national and international studies which investigated the psychological consequences of war on BH children and adolescents and several papers about children and adolescents from Srebrenica, that were not indexed on Medline, but showed very crucial results for the issue described.

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Traumatic events and predictive factors for posttraumatic symptoms in displaced Bosnian women in a war zone

Cited by 53 publications

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Trauma and suicidality in war affected communities

Trauma and suicidality in war affected communities

Psychological Symptoms as Long-Term Consequences of War Experiences

Psychological consequences of war-traumatized children and adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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